Best Regional Plants
| Plant Name | Genus | Award | Trial | Region |
Year |
Trial Cold Hardiness | Trial Heat Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Señorita Rosalita® Spider Flower Cleome | Cleome | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| ColorBlaze® El Brighto Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| ColorBlaze® Royale Pineapple Brandy™ Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| ColorBlaze® Wicked Witch™ Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Sweet Caroline Medusa™ Black ornamental sweet potato vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Sweet Caroline Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Shadowstorm® ornamental sweet potato vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Surefire Cascade® Red Begonia | Begonia | Perfect Score | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Surefire® White Begonia benariensis | Begonia | Perfect Score | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Surefire® Rose Begonia benariensis | Begonia | Perfect Score | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Surefire® Red II Begonia benariensis | Begonia | Perfect Score | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| White Knight® II sweet alyssum Lobularia | Lobularia | Perfect Score | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Plum Dandy™ Alternanthera | Alternanthera | Favorites | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 6a | 6 |
| Angelface® White III Summer Snapdragon Angelonia | Angelonia | Favorites | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 6a | 6 |
| Space Age® Black Hole™ Rex begonia Begonia rex | Begonia | Favorites | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 6a | 6 |
| Surefire Cascade® Red Begonia | Begonia | Favorites | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 6a | 6 |
| ColorBlaze® Wicked Witch™ Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Favorites | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 6a | 6 |
| Supertunia Mini Vista® Yellow Petunia | Petunia | Favorites | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 6a | 6 |
| Whirlwind® White III fan flower Scaevola aemula | Scaevola | Favorites | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 6a | 6 |
| ColorBlaze® Royale Pineapple Brandy™ Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Mississippi State University - Crystal Springs | Southeast | 2025 | 7b | 9 |
